New Automobile Line Cuts Travel to Roswell to Eight Hours
Santa Fe New Mexican notes Torrance to Roswell auto service averaging about eight hours, fare ten dollars for 101.75 miles. Service expected to drop to six or seven hours with road improvements. plans include meals, passenger care, and multiple stopping points. Projected mail and express transport across central New Mexico could follow.
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Thowias M. Michaels
Torrance
Torrence
Eastern Railway of
New Mexico
el Paso
Santa Fe Central
Roswell
Company Express
Territory
Santa Fe
Pecos City
Pecos
Automobile Line
Santa Be
Pecos Valley
Douglas Jerrold and the wit on Regent Street
A sketch-like anecdote captures Douglas Jerrold in witty clashes on Regent Street and at a dinner of artslants. He quips about a third subscription for a Grubstreet writer, bets a contribution, and lampoons clerical niceties with a taunting pun on surplus population and surplice.
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Douglas Jerrold
Regent Street
Jerrold
Linver
Crowd Gazes Up at Building as Man With Stiff Neck Draws Curiosity
A street crowd stalls traffic as a man with a stiff neck looks upward toward a tall building opposite. Police question the group while bystanders wonder what draws the attention. The scene ends with the man insisting he merely rests his head this way. Also includes ad for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and a tongue in cheek quip about indulgent mothers.
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Tin
WHEN A MAN STARVES AND DIES OF HUNGER TALE
A narrative on the progression of starvation from the first day of craving to the final prostration and deadly reckoning. The Chicago Chronicle quotes Ralph I F Fernandes of Tampa describing liver trouble and heart disease. Electric Bitters praised as a cure in three days. Also includes stray vignettes and quips from a bustling town.
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Chicago Chronicle
Ralph IF. Fernandes
Tampa
American Women and the Work Ethic in Society
A discussion contrasts American women with European views on labor and leisure, noting many affluent Americans supervise or perform domestic duties yet maintain high social standing. The piece references a Lemon City, Florida, anecdote about Chamberlain’s remedy and includes a brief, informal local exchange about a social acquaintance.
Sailors trousers and a comic theater tale
A London Standard remark discusses sailors baggy trousers made wide from knee to ankle for work in water and mockery of their style. The piece pivots to a joke about a sailor’s “dog’s life” and a comic exchange about theater tickets between a boarder and a cheerful shipmate.
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London Standard
Hliot
Chicago
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Socorro
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California Street
Ee Kornitzer, M. D., A. M
L BR. Kittrell
Abeyta Block
San Marcial
Harvey House
John FE. Griffith
F. ™. Dougherty
Attorney AT Law
James G. Fitch
LAW
Terry A Socorro
W. A. Fleming Jones
Las Cruces
N. M
United States Public Land Scrip
Elfego Baca
RK. Kelley
G. A. Collins
Crvi
MAI
San Francisco St. Santa Fe
Carthage Coal Mining CO
M. L. Hilton & Givane Luera, Proprietors
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C. T. Brown
A. H. Hilton
San Antonio
National Life Insurance Co
U. S.of A
Special
C. Severn
E. E. Burlingame & CU
Colorado
Meilor
Joe Lut al Sige
Lawrence St
Denver
Keeley Are Institute
Ovwright
H. Chambon
NEW Automobile Line
Maine
Boston Record
Rome
Chamberlain
Galveston
J.B. Stearns
Belle Plaine
Minn
Bucklen
Sad the Gar
Hed
Anickel
Lot
Col. Wainwright
Lemon City
Pla
Leaven
Swat
Noticy
Wilnem
José Domingo Silva
Puneblita
Socorro P.O
Lauterio Pino
Reenalida
Vicente Cantillo
Ascondida
Homestead
Pedro Martings
Tom -Tin
Jack
Bookey
New York
N. Mex
Socorro County
Juana Maria B. de Carvillo
Anatacio Carillo
N.M
Viar Vicente Padilla
Meregido Garcia
Felix Garcia
Locario Montoya
San An
Jamome Martin
Teas Cruces
James Patterson
Patterson
Homestead Aviation
W.N.M
Corre County
Secorre
J.P. Fullerton
Socorr
W. S. Fullerton
J. J. Neylon
Patter
J. J. Herbert
Datil
Kansas City
E. Biavaschi
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